Sci/Tech Apple forbids Windows users from installing Safari for Windows

[The Helper]

In using Apple Software Update to slip his Safari browser onto millions of Windows PCs, Steve Jobs didn't just undermine "the security of the whole Web". He's made a mockery of end user licensing agreements.

As spotted by our Italian friends at setteB.IT, Apple's Safari license says that users are permitted to install the browser on no more than "a single Apple-labeled computer at a time." This means that if you install Safari for Windows on a Windows PC, you're violating the license.

Early last week, as Apple unveiled Safari version 3.1, it began offering the browser to Windows users via the Apple Software Update tool that accompanies iTunes and Quicktime. In other words, millions of people who don't use Safari have now been confronted with a pop-up window that lists the browser as an important software "update."

And this is an offer that many iTunes and Quicktime users are less than likely to refuse. When that pop-up window pops up, the go-ahead-and-install-Safari button is checked by default.

Apple forbids Windows users from installing Safari for Windows

First they mock web security. Then EULAs

www.theregister.com

 

[UnknowVector]

Quicktime has been showing me alot of crap on its updater. I just upgrade the raw Quicktime install, and ignore Safari, ITunes, and QuickTimePlus or whatever they call it. So I'm in the habit of dechecking 2 or 3 things then clicking cancel

I keep the thing on though, because I don't want to have to go searching for security updates.

 

[esb]

I hate it when they do that >_<
That's why I have no apple items (nope, not even an ipod).
Windows Media Player ftw, and Firefox ftw.

 

[IceWarrior98]

I actually got the update to pop up today on me. I was like "Umm...whatever Safari is...I don't need it!" and unchecked it Then as it installed the new quicktime my power went out haha so either way, they would have lost lol.

 

[Sevion]

I dun like Apple. I got no Apple stuff, just like esb! Too many Ipods and not enough Zunes at meh school XP

But in HS, I have to use Apple -_-' All they have are EMacs.... with Safari.... Sucks ballzors -_-'

 

[Jackal]

I dun like Apple. I got no Apple stuff, just like esb! Too many Ipods and not enough Zunes at meh school XP

But in HS, I have to use Apple -_-' All they have are EMacs.... with Safari.... Sucks ballzors -_-'

eMacs lol, your computers need replacing, emacs are getting ancient